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   rehabilitate

   /ˌriː(h)əˈbɪlɪteɪt/

   verb

   • 1. restore (someone) to health or normal life by training and therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness: "helping to rehabilitate former criminals" Similar restore to health/normalityreintegratereadaptretraininformal:rehabreinstatereinstallrestorebring backre-establishpardonabsolveexonerateexculpateforgive
   • ▪ restore (someone) to former privileges or reputation after a period of disfavour: "with the fall of the government many former dissidents were rehabilitated"
   • ▪ return (something, especially a building or environmental feature) to its former condition: "the campaign aims to rehabilitate the river's flood plain" Similar reconditionrestorerenewrenovaterefurbishrevampmake overmake fit for habitation/useoverhauldevelopredevelopconvertrebuildreconstructremodelredecoratebrighten upfreshen upspruce upimproveupgraderefitfix upre-equipmodernizeupdatebring up to datebring into the twenty-first centurybring something up to coderehabinformal:do up

   Word Origin late 16th century (earlier (late 15th century) as rehabilitation) (in the sense ‘restore to former privileges’): from medieval Latin rehabilitat-, from the verb rehabilitare (see re-, habilitate).

   Derivatives

   • 1. rehabilitative adjective

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